The Drag And Drop plugin allows files to be opened in jEdit by simply dragging them into the text area from a file manager, desktop, or other application. Does not work on all combinations of platform/JDK.

The JVMStats plugin can be used to view the JVM status over time. A graph is showing how much memory is currently being used by the JVM, and some labels are giving the exact numbers of currently used memory, available memory and maximum allocatable memory by the JVM, as well as number of threads running in the JVM. The Collect garbage button allows users to force the garbage collection mechanism to activate and clean unneeded memory in the JVM.

| Navigator | The Navigator plugin provides "back" and "forward" buttons
like a web browser, and is handy when browsing code. |

The Side Kick plugin provides a framework for high-level language-specific features. Currently, this includes a structure tree dockable window, commands for moving the caret and folding based on language tokens, and a basic code-completion framework. The Side Kick plugin does nothing by itself; at least one plugin providing a language parser, such as the XML plugin, must be installed.